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Selected Verse: Proverbs 3:12 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 3:12 |
King James |
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
he delighteth--or receiveth as denoting reconciliation regarding the offense which produced chastisement. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The first distinct utterance of a truth which has been so full of comfort to many thousands; it is the summing up of all controversies (compare Joh 9:2) as to the mystery of suffering. The apostle writing to the Hebrews can find no stronger comfort Heb 12:6 than this; the Church, in her visitation service, has no truer message for the sufferer. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Whom the Lord loveth - To encourage thee to bear correction, know that it is a proof of God's love to thee; and thereby he shows that he treats thee as a father does his son, even that one to whom he bears the fondest affection.
The last clause the Septuagint translate μαστιγοι δε παντα υἱον ὁν παραδεχεται, "and chasteneth every son whom he receiveth;" and the apostle, Heb 12:6, quotes this literatim. Both clauses certainly amount to the same sense. Every son whom he receiveth, and the son in whom he delighteth, have very little difference of meaning. |
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.